Background The objective of this study was to assess the effect of a serious game skills
competition on voluntary usage of a laparoscopic simulator among first-year surgical residents’ …

Background Localizing lung tumours during minimally invasive surgery is difficult, since
restricted access precludes manual palpation and pre‐operative imaging cannot map directly to …

… by about ten per cent when |G/R| is approximately twenty and transition is initiated at |G/R|
§ 35-40 or more. For opposing flow, Scheele and Hanratty suggest that at G/R § 9.87 there is …

The Oregon State University (OSU) High Temperature Test Facility (HTTF) is an integral
experimental facility that will be constructed on the OSU campus in Corvallis, Oregon. The HTTF …

… VHTR vessel thermal-hydraulic phenomena that are of importance during normal, reduced
power, and accident operation were identified by McEligot and McCreery, 2004, and are …

This article describes the results of an experimental investigation of drop formation
mechanisms and drop diameter distributions for spray plate nozzles. Spray plate nozzles are …

One of the great challenges of designing and licensing the Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR)
is to confirm that the intended VHTR analysis tools can be used confidently to make …

A two‐dimensional volume of fluid (VOF) method was used to simulate liquid movement
within unsaturated fracture intersections and fracture networks. Fragmentation and merging of …

Background Dedicated practice using laparoscopic simulators improves operative performance.
Yet, voluntary utilization is minimal. We hypothesized that skill competition between …

… GL McCreery is with Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics … (email:
greig.mccreery@gmail.com). AL Trejos and RV Patel are with the Department of Electrical and …